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I don't normally follow murder cases closely, but the trial of a North Dakota plastic surgeon, Robert Bierenbaum, was hard to miss. That's because my friend Sue went to high school with him in West Orange in 1970's. She tracked the case with an...

A Manhattan judge sentenced a plastic surgeon convicted of murder to 20 years to life in prison yesterday, saying that he used his elite background and medical knowledge in dismembering his wife, squeezing her body into a duffle bag and dumping it...

Lawyers for a plastic surgeon who was convicted of murdering his wife and dumping her body from a plane have asked a judge for the minimum sentence of 15 years to life. Citing their client's charity and compassion -- and a recent attack in jail in...

The state Board of Medical Examiners in North Dakota will pursue disciplinary action against Dr. Robert Bierenbaum, the cosmetic surgeon who was convicted of killing his wife in New York. Sanctions against Dr. Bierenbaum could range from...

If you wanted to start a new life, free of reproach or inquiry, this remote prairie town of 35,500 might be the place. Its open wheat fields, quiet ways and uncritical embrace of strangers drew two such outsiders here in 1996, a doctor couple from...

October 30, 2000, Monday

A Manhattan jury yesterday found a plastic surgeon guilty of killing his wife in 1985 and disposing of her body by dropping it from an airplane into the Atlantic Ocean. The surgeon, Dr. Robert Bierenbaum, 45, remained expressionless as the jury...

October 25, 2000, Wednesday

An alternate juror in the trial of a plastic surgeon charged with killing his wife 15 years ago said yesterday that he and other jurors thought the prosecutors' case was weak, since there was no body or direct evidence. As the jury began...

The sole defense witness in the trial of a doctor charged with killing his wife struggled yesterday to recall the size and shape of the woman he had gazed at in a Manhattan bagel store 15 years ago, on the day the wife disappeared. The witness,...

It is possible, even easy, to push a 110-pound body from an airplane while flying the plane at the same time, Manhattan prosecutors want a jury to know. So yesterday, to prove this point, they showed a grainy homemade videotape featuring a New...

October 17, 2000, Tuesday

A smart murderer leaves no body behind, Robert Bierenbaum told his wife years ago, according to a witness who testified recently in the murder trial of Dr. Bierenbaum, a plastic surgeon. Claus von Bulow made this mistake, leaving his wife to...